The Lakewood baseball team is selling T-shirts for a fundraiser. The shirts cost $100 for the printing design and setup, plus $10 per shirt. The team is going to sell the shirts for $15 each. How many shirts do they need to sell to break even?(1 point)
___ shirts
16 shirts
Explanation:
To break even, the team needs to cover the cost of $100 for the printing design and setup plus the cost of $10 per shirt. This totals to $100 + $10x = $100 + $10x, where x is the number of shirts sold.
To find the break-even point, we can set the revenue (selling price of the shirts) equal to the cost:
$15x = $100 + $10x
Solving for x:
$15x - $10x = $100
$5x = $100
x = 20
So, the team needs to sell 20 shirts to break even.